Print made by Henri Emile Lefort, 1852–1916, French, Benjamin Franklin, 1896
- Title:
- Benjamin Franklin
- Date:
- 1896
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 28 × 22 inches (71.1 × 55.9 cm), Plate: 20 × 15 inches (50.8 × 38.1 cm), Image: 16 1/4 × 12 1/4 inches (41.3 × 31.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "Grolier Club | Nov. 1898 &cx. | Paid Mr. Bush"; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "644L"
Lettered below image: "Etched by Henri Lefort from an original | painting by Duplessis presented by Geo. A. Lucas | to the W.H.Huntington collection of Americana | Metropolitan Museum of Art - N-Y."; lower left: "The Grolier Club | Founded New York 1884 | 1898"; lower right: "B. Franklin | Americain | 1777"
Signed in plate, lower right: "Henri Lefort"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Undetermined
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.712
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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